A rare handbill advertising the short-lived school of art conducted by James McNeill Whistler and Frederick MacMonnies in Paris. Printed in English on one side and French on the other, it advertises classes in painting, sculpture, and drawing, with a modèle vivant all day (and night lessons available as well).....
A fundraising circular for Mary McLeod Bethune’s all-black Bethune Cookman College in Florida. Celebrated African-American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)—fondly known as “The First Lady of The Struggle”—is best known for founding this private college for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida. Born to.....
A charming broadside advertising the services of American silhouettist Moses Chapman, illustrated with silhouette cuts of a man and a woman and specifying costs and other particulars. Chapman informs the public that he is available from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm, and takes “correct Profiles, reduced to any size, two.....
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A group of three scarce circulars issued to promote a St. Louis Sanitary Fair in 1864. The Western Sanitary Commission's biggest fund-raising event was the Grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. The Commission was a private agency devoted to aiding the Union Army’s sick and wounded soldiers. Led by abolitionists and.....
An unrecorded circular produced by the Philadelphia Prison Society reporting on an 1848 prison-reform convention in New York City held by the Prison Association of New York and promoting a subsequent such convention to be held in Philadelphia later that year. The “period of reform from the 1820s to.....
A scarce advertising circular featuring an appeal from the women of the United Garment Workers of America to union men to buy the union-manufactured trousers of Sweet, Orr & Co. in order to support the organization and ensure humane working conditions. The cover illustration depicts a carpenter at work wearing.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. Upham’s lines crown Lincoln a “martyr” and call for national mourning: “Drape every dwelling in sable night: / Symbol of deep lamentation!” In addition, the song calls for “a garland of lilies white” to be.....
A song sheet mourning President Lincoln, set to Stephen Foster’s tune Under the Willow. The “bewailing” nation is here characterized as crying for “Lincoln, the merciful, doomed to die.” The first chorus calls for the punishment of John Wilkes Booth and crowns Lincoln a “martyr”: “Strike, strike the traitor.....